New Annan is a Canadian rural community located in
Prince County
Prince County is located in western Prince Edward Island, Canada. The county's defining geographic feature is Malpeque Bay, a sub-basin of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which creates the narrowest portion of Prince Edward Island's landmass, an isthmus ...
,
Prince Edward Island
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. It is named after
Annan,
Dumfries-shire
Dumfriesshire or the County of Dumfries or Shire of Dumfries (''Siorrachd Dhùn Phris'' in Gaelic) is a historic county and registration county in southern Scotland. The Dumfries lieutenancy area covers a similar area to the historic county.
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,
Scotland
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.
Cavendish Farms
Cavendish Farms is a Canadian food processing company and subsidiary of the J. D. Irving group of companies. Its headquarters are in Dieppe, New Brunswick and potato processing plants in New Annan, Prince Edward Island, Lethbridge, Alberta, and ...
, Prince Edward Island's largest private sector employer, maintains two large frozen foods processing plants in New Annan.
An 1875
gazetteer
A gazetteer is a geographical index or directory used in conjunction with a map or atlas.Aurousseau, 61. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup, social statistics and physical features of a country, region, or co ...
refers to New Annan Mills as a "small village in Prince co.
ounty 6 miles from Summerside. Pop.
opulation80."
November 2011 murder-suicide
On November 13, 2011, two people died in suspicious circumstances in New Annan. A car parked at the roadside with a man and a woman in it was found on
Highway 2 in New Annan, between highways
110
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and
120. The woman was dead due to stabbing and the man later died in hospital due to a self-inflicted stab wound.
References
Atlas of Canada
Communities in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
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